Fifty years of research suggest that one of the most important things we can do to promote social mobility in America is to give all children a chance to go to socioeconomically and racially integrated schools.
Why, then, are there so few that do?
In the final episode of this four-part series, two of Crosstown High’s students explain in their own words why their school’s diversity may be its most valuable factor — and challenge the rest of us to follow suit.
Powerful learning is a relational act; it never occurs alone.
Why, then, do we expect our teacher to hone their craft in isolation?
In episode 3 of the four-part series, Diverse by Design, we meet two of Crosstown High’s inaugural class of teachers, and learn why they believe that co-teaching is the only way to go. So be prepared: their perspective may change the way you think about the future of learning — and what it will require.
How active should learning be? How relevant? And what is required of adults if they are serious about expecting that kids will have a different experience — and a different feeling — in that thing we call ‘school’?
In a new four-part series from 180 Studio, we witness one community’s efforts to answer those questions.
In the city of Memphis, in a formerly abandoned Sears warehouse, a new school, Crosstown High, is aspiring to model something that hasn’t been seen before — a version of school that looks nothing like the schools most of us attended or experienced, and an explicit commitment to weave together a community of young people who embody the full range of Memphis’s social, economic, and ethnic diversity.
This is Diverse by Design.
How do you reimagine something that has looked the same for generations? And what does a diverse society require — and need — in order to support a shared commitment to the common good?
In a new four-part series from 180 Studio, we witness one community’s efforts to answer both questions.
In the city of Memphis, in a formerly abandoned Sears warehouse, a new school, Crosstown High, is aspiring to model something that hasn’t been seen before — a version of school that looks nothing like the schools most of us attended or experienced, and an explicit commitment to weave together a community of young people who embody the full range of Memphis’s social, economic, and ethnic diversity.
This is Diverse by Design. I hope you’ll watch, share, & comment . . .
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